This city now doth, like a garment wear the beauty of the morning.(verb form of garment)
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Summary Lines 1-8
Lines 1-8 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
Line 1
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
While crossing over the Westminster Bridge, the speaker makes a bold statement: he has found the most beautiful scene on the planet. All you other artists can call off the search! Wordsworth has located the very heart of beauty, or "fairness."
Of course, though, he's exaggerating. He really means something like, "At this particular moment, I can't imagine anywhere being more beautiful than the place I'm standing." It's almost more a reflection of his mood than of the outside world. He can't compare the scene from the bridge with anything except his own memories, but since that's all anyone can do we'll let him run with this one.
The line ends with a colon, letting us know that he's going to tell us what earth is "showing" after the line break